How does the pitch control work?

What forces are acting on a wind turbine blade?

What are yaw, pitch and cone angles?

How can different airfoils be compared and investigated?

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Are you teaching wind turbine technology?

Did you ever find yourself (literally) waving your arms trying to explain the
velocity triangle or blade pitching thinking there must be a better way?
Do your students find it challenging and time consuming to understand
the fundamental aspects of wind turbine technology, such as
- What is the induced velocity?
- How does the pitch controller work?
- Which side of the blade faces the wind?

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the ease-of-use, intuitiveness and visualization. Ashes makes learning
wind turbine technology faster, more interesting, and fun.
 Experience a smooth and easy start
Start from two of the most popular reference wind turbines (NREL 5MW and DTU 10MW) that come
pre-built with Ashes and dive directly into a real-time simulation or use them as a starting point for your
own on- or offshore (bottom-fixed and floating) turbine model. Reduce the time spent by your students
on understanding how to use a software and rather focus on teaching.

Never miss a detail with our comprehensive and unique 3D visualization

Our unique and performant 3D visualization makes it easy to understand what forces and moments
are acting on your turbine model. Each node along the blade can be further investigated by opening
a visualization of the velocity triangle showing all acting forces, angles and the current polar curves.

Advanced Blade Element Momentum (BEM) simulation

Ashes provides both steady and unsteady BEM. It offers a broad set of advanced features like dynamic
wake model, dynamic stall, tip and hub loss, tower shadow, automated Viterna extrapolation of polar
data and selection of individual polar sets.

Highly flexible environmental conditions

Choose from a broad set of environmental models for wind, waves, tides and currents. Ashes provides
uniform, stepwise, sinusoidal, IEC extreme and turbulent wind. Moreover, it comes with an interface
for NREL’s Turbsim and also has an implementation of the Mann turbulence generator. Waves can be
modelled as regular and irregular with up to two spectra. In addition, custom wave loadings can be
applied. Ashes supports up to two currents.

Create and investigate turbulent wind fields

Ashes comes with a user interface for NREL’s Turbsim that makes it possible to easily create custom
wind fields and also to investigate these within a comprehensive visulization.

Easy creation of custom airfoils and polars

Ashes provides a handy built-in tool for creation of custom airfoils.
In addition, a wrapper around Xfoil makes it possible to directly investigate pressure curves and related
coefficients for certain conditions or to create complete sets of polars to be used in time simulations.

Storage of blades and airfoils for reuse

Airfoils and blades can be stored in databases for reuse and handy collaboration. For each airfoil several
sets of polars can be saved to account for different conditions or for different data sources (wind tunnel,
field test or CFD/PANEL tool data).

Benefit from our tailor-made exercises and online support

Explore our exercise database, resulting from our collaborations with some of the best wind turbine
technology universities. These exercises explain the most relevant key concepts of wind energy in a
fun, exciting and intuitive way with Ashes. Moreover, benefit from the questions hundreds of ustudents
got already answered in detail in our online Question & Answer forum or browse YouTube for dozens
of tutorial videos.

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